Mourinho: Chelsea in trouble

Chelsea manager José Mourinho says his side are “in trouble” because of the injury problems to strikers Diego Costa and Loïc Rémy.

The Portuguese manager was speaking ahead of tonight’s game with Shrewsbury Town in the League Cup, mentioning specifically Ramires and Rémy as his biggest concerns.

Chelsea were held 1-1 at Manchester United on Sunday meaning they have little more than 50 appears between the two games. However, with the League Cup often seen as unimportant, the Blues are expected to play a reserve side at Stamford Bridge this evening.

“I have only one day, we travel to London and we are travelling to Shrewsbury. We are in trouble because we have so many injured players.”

Perhaps the Chelsea boss has not kept up-to-date with Arsenal and Manchester United’s injury lists all season. In comparison, their fellow Premier League rivals have had several more injuries throughout the season.

The Chelsea boss continued:

“It is even more difficult for us to go. We have to go. We now have a difficult match. Because they are doing very well in their league and doing very well against superior teams in the Capital One Cup. It’s a big day for them. We know it will be difficult for us. But that’s football.

“Every game is important. Shrewsbury is not a friendly. We have to play matches with respect and the best way to respect Shrewsbury is to go there with a good team. Not to go there with a weak team and lose. It is to go there with a good team –if they win, they win, but they win against a good team. We are in a difficult situation with regards to today but, when you look at the players who didn’t play – Schürrle, Salah, Zouma, Aké, Mikel – these boys are obviously going to have to play.”

Whilst Mourinho does say the League Cup is important to him, he perhaps does not realise that André Schürrle, Mohamed Salah, Kurt Zouma, Nathan Aké and John Obi Mikel are significantly better players than what Tuesday night’s opposition are able to put together.

André Schürrlecan play as the lone striker tonight – the German international did so at Mainz 05 at the start of his career before playing a support role to Stefan Kießling at Bayer 04 Leverkusen.

Didier Drogba is not expected to play having played the full 90 minutes against Manchester United only two days ago.

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7 Comments

amin28 October, 2014

mourinho is trying to move away our mind from his team.
he has very solid team he ever had during his career.
i am sure stage one or two this season for him if he goes on in this trace of his field.
the most difficult problem for him is about attacking works.
he could build his team very solid from his defenders and midfielders like saf!!
but the problem is ,he needs miracle for scoring goal due to matching perfectly midfielders with attacker players to SCORE!!

but manutd however reportes say they are going well,i think it couldn’t happen this season as a fan of manutd!because they played last match like SUNDERLAND with young players and without having experience.im unhappy to say because this one can help us achieve priemer league cup this season,,,
we are weak in defence yet according to peter schmiechel.and also garry nevielle said something very crucial for result of manutd this season((we must see 3 games to sure teams can achieve cup or not))
so last match was not good.lvg said good but acutally not.
mannutd had problems also in the case of scoring goal.
we must sell fellaini
we must but strootman of bale or ronaldo or messi!!i think manutd needs time its better but we’ll lost cup this season

glory united forever

lawrence28 October, 2014

Even if without Costa and Remy but we still have Schurrie.and its time Chelsea hunt good players and I again think we need to add more quality in the team and I prefer Ortamendi.Musacchio to solve our defence.and Iniesta Hulk and Khedira to add more quality in our Midfield and please forget Pogba and bring Chicarito or Alcacarez as our other striker please pass this comment to Mourihno and his technical team love Chelsea.

oladelehodunayo28 October, 2014

We will win d match am sure of that start Solanke,baker and Ake.

amevi dagban28 October, 2014

i agree with you.forget pogba.josé knows which young and prolific players to bring in.it’s time,God is rubbing all bad names given to Chelsea around the world up

Elesho28 October, 2014

Start solanke he’s a good prospect for chelsea

amevi dagban28 October, 2014

as for english referees,that is how they will always be.how many of them always appear on uefa competitions?something which also reflect on their national team and affect it.a referee hating Chelsea is nothing

amevi dagban28 October, 2014

as for english referees,that is how they will always be.how many of them always appear on uefa competitions?something which also reflects on their national team and affects it.a referee hating Chelsea is nothing